Soldiers Who Became Authors

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  1. 2. He was an army paratrooper in the war in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive. His personal memoir about his experiences there is entitled The Pharaohs Army.
  2. 3. This Russian born American author was a junior chemist in the Navy and later taught biochemistry. He wrote about 500 books and is well known for science fiction and also wrote in the astronomy, biology, math, religion and literary biography genres.
  3. 6. This author wrote the Lord of the Rings, a fantasy novel series. His vision of Middle Earth may have resulted from his experiences while suffering from trench fever as a British soldier in WWI.
  4. 8. On his first day of combat, D-Day, he supposedly had the first six chapters of The Catcher in the Rye in his jacket pocket.
  5. 9. was sent as a British liaison officer when the Arabs rebelled against Turks in 1916. His best-known work is Seven Pillars of Wisdom, an autobiographical account of his participation in the Arab Revolt.
  6. 12. A US Army Chaplin during the Korean War, this author's novel I Am the Clay recounts the devastation and subsequent poverty of South Korea.
  7. 13. Pierre Boulle's book about this river described his service in the Free French Army and as a secret agent in Asia who was captured. This French author also wrote Planet of the Apes.
  8. 14. An ambulance driver for the Italian army in WWI, his book A Farewell to Arms is set during this war. He was wounded and moved to Paris to be a war correspondent.
  9. 15. This writer and lay theologian was wounded while serving in France with the Somerset Light Infantry during World War I. After his war service, he attended Oxford University, where he taught for several years before becoming a professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was the first volume in his Chronicles of Narnia series.
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  1. 1. This award winning author was a British WWII fighter pilot with the Royal Air Force. He was shot down over the desert in Libya. His children's books are considered somewhat dark and he is known for his surprise endings.
  2. 2. This poet's brother was hurt during Civil War so he became a medic to help his brother and others.
  3. 4. This English novelist was born in India. He joined the Spanish rebel groups to fight against dictator General Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War. Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four are his best-known books.
  4. 5. Shoshana Johnson wrote I'm Still Standing about her experiences as a woman serving in combat and the first American woman to be held as a _________.
  5. 7. Battle Cry was based on his own experiences with the US Marines during WWII.
  6. 10. After being drafted into US Army in 1918 and served as an ambulance driver in France. Later, he wrote modernist free-form poetry.
  7. 11. Slaughterhouse Five is his novel about the massacre of Dresden, where he was a POW who lived 60' underground in a former meat locker and slaughterhouse.
  8. 16. At the outbreak of WWII, he joined the Royal Marines. Later, as a Commando, his succession of desperate actions resulted in his becoming famous for his phenomenal courage. Men at Arms was his first novel in a trilogy.